The 104-year-old Brazilian architect, who was admitted for two weeks due to dehydration, has worked with the 104-year-old American trainer brand to develop a range of shoes apparently "born out of a shared passion for creative expression".

The trainers, which have a subdued palette of cream and white with dashes of red, are said to be inspired by Niemeyer's famous quote about curves:

"It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve – the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman."

The new Chuck Taylor All Star Hi model has these words handwritten on white canvas all over it, while its bold red tongue is said to be a reference to the dramatic cantilevered entrance of São Paolo's Ibirapuera Auditorium.

The tongue of Niemeyer's trainers are said to resemble the red canopy of São Paolo's Ibirapuera Auditorium Oscar Niemeyer

But it seems Niemeyer has also used this opportunity to make a political statement. The lifelong activist and former president of the Brazilian Communist party – an appointment that prevented him from entering America on several occasions – once said: "Our concern is political too – to change the world … Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings."